Guillermo Lasso, 65, has vowed to attract foreign investment and break away from leftist policies. Source link
Month: April 2021
China’s regulators slapped a $2.8bn fine on the e-commerce giant over monopoly concerns Source link
Kamala Harris made history when she became the first female, black and South Asian vice-president of the United States in January. Three women who share Ms Harris’ mixed parentage open up about balancing the two sides of their lives. Produced by Nalini Sivathasan, BBC Asian Network. Source link
Sixty years ago, a man went into space for the very first time. For the USSR, Yuri Gagarin’s single orbit of the Earth was a huge achievement and propaganda coup. There will be celebrations across Russia to mark the anniversary. Our Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports on the day a […]
“Government planners usually think about forests just as carbon sinks. They often forget forest fires, and how they can become sources of carbon emissions,” said Vijendra Ajnabi, a natural resource management expert with Oxfam, who is based in India’s Chhattisgarh state. Source link
Bavaria’s premier finally says he may be the conservatives’ candidate to replace Angela Merkel. Source link
থানার সামনে পথ অবরোধ করে বিক্ষোভ। Source link
নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদন: ভোটের বাংলায় সংক্রমণের নয়া রেকর্ড। গত ২৪ ঘণ্টায় রাজ্যে আক্রান্তের সংখ্যা চার হাজারের গণ্ডি পেরিয়ে গেল। কলকাতার অবস্থাও রীতিমতো উদ্বেগজনক। সংক্রমণের কবলে পড়েছেন হাজারেরও বেশি মানুষ। তাও আবার এবার অনেক কম সংখ্যক মানুষের নমুনা পরীক্ষা করা হয়েছে। বিশেষজ্ঞদের আশঙ্কা, যাঁরা পরীক্ষার আওতায় বাইরে রয়েছেন, ভাইরাসের কবলে পড়েছেন তাঁদের […]
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid spent, only three former Khmer Rouge have ever been sentenced – Comrade Duch, the regime’s head of state Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot’s second-in-command, Nuon Chea, who died last year after being convicted of genocide. Pol Pot himself died in 1998. […]
An electrical fault is reported at the Natanz site where advanced uranium centrifuges were unveiled. Source link